Identifier: streetrailway03amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the trolley arm was hard rubber. Soft on the plane of the common place. But all the possibili- rubber is used, and constitutes one of the special claims ties of death from a current capable of doing fatal work of the device. THE MATLOCK CABLE TRAMWAY. 483 The Recently Completed Cable Road—Numerous New Applications for Safety—Interesting Construction- A Great Success. SITUATED in the picturesque county of Derby-shire, on the banks of the classic Dervvent, liesthe township of Matlock. Here invalids fromall parts of the world may be found seeking lost healthb\- drinking the waters of the mineral springs and under-going the drastic treatment at the various hydropathic often to the principal street in the town at the bottom ofthe hill would require to be a fairly healthy one. The want of a means of conveyance for both passen-gers and goods was keenly felt, and a local company wasformed, with George Croydon Marks, M. I. C. E., astheir engineer, who retained the services of W. N. Colam,
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SCENES ON THE MATLOCK, ENGLAND, CABLE RAILWAY. The Power House.Double Deck Car. establishments. These establishments are very numer-ous, the higher levels of the town being almost exclu-sively occupied by them. The main public road fromthe turnpike in the valley where the Midland Railwaystation is situated, is both tortuous, narrow and very steep.It is over this road that most of the traffic is conveyed,both passenger and goods. When it is mentioned thatin a distance of 2,310 ftet this road rises 300 feet, it willbe readily understood that the invalid who could stroll Drawing in the Cable.Entrance to Car House. M. I. C. E., the well-known cable tramway expert, asconsulting engineer. Parliamentary plans, etc., weremade and ultimately in 1891 an Act of Parliament wasobtained to construct a cable line, and thus tosomeextent the municipal difficulties were overcome. The physical obstacles now presented themselves indetail to the engineer, and these were found to be of con-siderable magnit

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